Paper Boat Terms & Conditions

These Terms govern your use of Paper Boat ("the app"), built and published by Pearkoder (Pvt) Ltd (pearkoder.com). By creating an account you agree to them and to our Privacy Policy (https://pearkoder.com/paper-boat/privacy).

You must be 18 or older. You sign in with a Google account and you must give a real photo of yourself, your name and your country. One person may have one account.

You can send one boat (a message of up to 280 characters) each day, and you receive one boat a day from another person. Each boat goes to one person. You cannot reply, and people cannot chat. Gifts are small pictures that travel with a boat.

You keep ownership of what you send: your messages, your photo and your gift pictures. You give us a licence to store, check, translate and show them to the people they are sent to, as the app is designed to work, and for as long as your account exists. After you delete your account, boats that were already delivered stay with their readers (see the Privacy Policy).

You promise that you have the right to share what you send, and that it is your own photo.

Do not send anything that is:

- Hateful, threatening, harassing, sexual or violent

- Spam, advertising, links or requests for money

- Someone else's private information, or a photo of someone else

- Illegal, or that encourages harm to yourself or others

If you are struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or to a local helpline. Paper Boat is not a crisis service.

Messages, photos and gift pictures are checked automatically before others see them. We may reject or remove anything that breaks these Terms. If a boat is rejected you will see that in the app and a gift attached to it returns to you. If several of your boats are rejected, we may pause your sending for a while. We may suspend or close an account for serious or repeated breaches.

You can report a boat and block the person who sent it. We may review reported content to decide what to do.

Gifts are collectible pictures that exist only inside the app. They have no money value, cannot be sold or exchanged for money, and are not cryptocurrency or tokens. Anyone who holds a gift can see its journey: the name, country and date of each person who held it. We may remove a gift that breaks these Terms.

Keep your Google account secure; you are responsible for activity on your Paper Boat account. You can change your profile in Settings → Edit profile and delete your account in Settings → Delete my account. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what deletion removes.

We aim to keep the app running, but it may sometimes be unavailable or change. We may add, change or remove features. We are not liable for downtime or for boats that are delayed.

Paper Boat is provided "as is". We cannot promise that you will receive a boat every day, or what other people will write. Translations are automatic and may contain mistakes.

To the extent the law allows, Pearkoder is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of the app, or for what other people send. Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

We may update these Terms as the app grows. We will tell you in the app about significant changes. Continuing to use the app after a change means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Sri Lanka.

Questions about these Terms can be directed to hello@pearkoder.com.